April 28, 2026 Good news! The Chancellor withdrew the proposal to create an AI high school. Check out the NY Times story about this here, in which I’m quoted as saying the ”intense outrage among parents in NYC [about AI] is as great as I’ve seen it on any education issue that I’ve been working […]
April 26, 2026 1. We now have a one-page critique of the painfully inadequate DOE AI guidance, plus a longer, detailed analysis here. I’m also offering an annotated pdf version of the guidance itself with our comments appended. Links to all these docs are posted here, along with suggestions on how to respond […]
April 24, 2026 1. Please join us for our annual Skinny award dinner on Tuesday May 19, when we will be honoring the great education scholar and warrior, Diane Ravitch! Diane is not only the foremost expert on the history of the NYC school system, the author of 20 books and a widely-read […]
April 21, 2026 1. Save the date! Our annual Class Size Matters Skinny Award dinner will be held on Tuesday May 19 at 6 PM; more info soon on where and how to purchase your ticket to support our work, whether on class size, student privacy or AI, and to honor the tremendously […]
April 15, 2026 A quick reminder and update: 1. Please join other NYC parents, students, teachers and advocates tomorrow Thursday April 16 at City Hall Park, when we will call for a moratorium on the use of AI in the classroom and deliver our petition and also national letter on the issue to […]
April 13, 2026 1. On Thursday April 16 at 4:00 PM, NYC parents, kids, teachers and advocates will be gathering in City Hall Park to call for a moratorium on the use of AI in the classroom until rigorous measures can be established to protect student privacy, their cognitive development, critical thinking, mental […]
Below is a screenshot of our latest interactive webmap, which shows utilization rates at individual schools across New York City, revealing how many overcrowded schools are sitting close by underutilized schools of the same grade levels. The data is from the latest 2024-2025 Enrollment, Capacity and Utilization Report, known as the “Blue Book.” By using […]
The NYC Department of Education and public schools are using more than 500 ed tech programs and other apps that collect, process and at times redisclose personal student data in ways that undermine children’s privacy. We have found that the privacy policies and practices of some of these programs are not fully compliant with the […]
July 9, 2025 Below and here is our detailed critique of the DOE’s draft Class Size Reduction Plan for the 2025-2026 school year, along with a list of signers including many parent leaders, and an appendix with charts backing up these figures. These figures are also posted here. Thanks to those of you who signed […]
July 2, 2025 The appendix to our comments with charts on the DOE draft class size plan for 2025-2026 is here and below. “
Sign the petition asking for a moratorium on the use of AI until rigorous safeguards are established to protect student privacy, learning and the environment.
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Talk out of School radio show and podcast airs Sunday night at 7 PM on WBAI 99.5 FM or online at www.wbai.org when Leonie Haimson, Daniel Alicea and Kaliris Salas Ramirez interview guests and discuss issues affecting public schools in NYC, the state level and nationally. You can stream or subscribe to the podcast here at Simplecast; or at iTunes, Spotify or Google.
Sign here to urge NYC to implement a real, multi-year strategy to lower class size, as the law intends, without exempting up to half or more of all students.
